The plot centers on an orphaned child from a war torn Eastern European country, and how her life captivates and unsettles a group of western artists… read more

In Carellin Brooks’ One Hundred Days of Rain, we meet a woman going through a divorce with a small son in Vancouver. Rain serves as a kind of co-narrator to the book; it’s both character and metaphor… read more

Kate Gray has written a stunning book, a blazingly necessary work of fiction for a wounded world…. read more

“[Spheres of Disturbance] disturbs our ideas about the end of our lives, about how death goes—it invites us to ask ourselves what we want, for our lives and our deaths.”… read more

The speaker in The Possibilities of Mud roots down and out in the Texas Gulf. He puts himself in league with the deer of the arroyos and the other animals in the world. “The cattle egret is a golden life as much as she is white”–each creature seems a lesson in how to let the… read more

“Observant songs of history and elegy, these poems turn our faces to what we can do with love and language, and what we can’t.”… read more

2011 Emerging Writers Retreat Fellows On behalf of the Staff and Board of Trustees of The Lambda Literary Foundation, we introduce to you the 2011 Class of the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices. This summer from August 6-13, the forty-two talented emerging writers listed below, representing every region of the United States and traveling… read more